Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 2 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 3 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 4 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 5 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 6 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 8 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 9 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 10 | Moving to a different part of the country , for example , or even a chance meeting , may be the trigger to reactivate a relationship with someone in this outermost circle , thus drawing them into the second category . |
| 11 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 12 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 13 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 14 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 15 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 16 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 17 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
| 18 | The other one , could I just correct something on the last line of er , comment at the bottom of the , bottom of page two . |
| 19 | Erm just to refer you to the last sentence , paragraph four three , er to assure members of the Committee that those er representation whether the erm application . |
| 20 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 21 | Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute . |
| 22 | I 'll call you a Pakistani , they wear three t-shirts , I said do you go to bed in them and then just leave them on the next morning put your school shirt on top ? |
| 23 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 24 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 25 | ‘ Villa totally outclassed us in the first half and we were extremely lucky only to be a goal down . |
| 26 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 27 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 28 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 29 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 30 | You still owe me from the last time . |